Comments on: Hey!Watch Online Video Converting http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:02:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Paul Thompson http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50732 Paul Thompson Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:18:32 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50732 Yep. Interesting concept, but I can't imagine how this will EVERY succeed. It'll sure put some serious cash in some bandwidth company's pocket, though.... Yep. Interesting concept, but I can’t imagine how this will EVERY succeed. It’ll sure put some serious cash in some bandwidth company’s pocket, though….

]]> By: Kurt Collins http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50698 Kurt Collins Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:37:59 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50698 I'm going to have to agree with Lydon on this one. Why pay for this service when you can download programs that do the conversion for you on your own computer? And given the fact that the potential demographic for this are the same people that most likely upgrade their computers every two years or so, then the CPU power shouldn't be too much of an issue. Unless they've got some kind of B2B angle where businesses can rent CPU cycles, then I don't know how this one is going to survive. But hey, smarter people than me have succeeded at stupider things than I can come up with. I’m going to have to agree with Lydon on this one. Why pay for this service when you can download programs that do the conversion for you on your own computer? And given the fact that the potential demographic for this are the same people that most likely upgrade their computers every two years or so, then the CPU power shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

Unless they’ve got some kind of B2B angle where businesses can rent CPU cycles, then I don’t know how this one is going to survive.

But hey, smarter people than me have succeeded at stupider things than I can come up with.

]]> By: Lydon http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50619 Lydon Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:58:47 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50619 It's kind of hard to see this taking off with the current bandwidths provided today. In the time it takes to upload anything worth converting and then download it again, you could have converted it yourself 5 times. It’s kind of hard to see this taking off with the current bandwidths provided today. In the time it takes to upload anything worth converting and then download it again, you could have converted it yourself 5 times.

]]> By: Jon http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50603 Jon Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:33:35 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/27/heywatch-online-video-converting/#comment-50603 I sure wouldn't want to be paying their bandwidth bill every month... otherwise, neat service but if you don't have high speed internet, useless - stick with software ;-) Jon I sure wouldn’t want to be paying their bandwidth bill every month… otherwise, neat service but if you don’t have high speed internet, useless - stick with software ;-)

Jon

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